PIERS Morgan's documentary lifting the lid on the luxurious lives of the multi-millionaire residents of Sandbanks looks let to sizzle on screen.

The three part series called Sandbanks was filmed at the so-called Millionaires' Row last summer.

In it the controversy courting former tabloid editor gets an exclusive look into the £10million sea fronting mansion of Portsmouth Football Club manager, Harry Redknapp, and meets £7 million Portsmouth signing Sulley Muntari, taking a tour of the palatial pad he shares with international model girlfriend, former Miss Ghana, Menaye Donkor.

He also interviews a self-made millionaire Paul Mayden, who raked in £32 million in just nine months, has nine cars and could live anywhere in the world - but chose to look for a home in Sandbanks. As well as rubbing shoulders with the high flying residents, Morgan also examines the conflict between developers cashing in on the area's property boom, and old-guard residents who are unhappy about the radical changes which have happened around them.

These include war veteran Jack Holsgrove, who paid £60,000 for his beach property 35 years ago, but refuses to sell despite regular visits from estate agents promising millions for his home.

He tells the former Mirror man he will not sell at any price as he wouldn't have time to spend it, adding: "Where would I go to better this?"

Well-known property developers Eddie Mitchell and Richard Carr feature, and come under fire from the president of the local residents' association, Terry Stewart, who is among those who think new development is destroying the character of the area.

And in the final part of the series on Thursday, Piers looks at threats to this wealthy idyll, including the risk of the property bubble bursting and the predictions that climate change will eventually sink the peninsula.

Radio Times critic David Butcher calls the show "a tale of the property boom gone mad" and mocks Morgan's claim that Sandbanks is "Britain's Monte Carlo".

He writes: "In the real Monte Carlo, I'll bet their biggest local celeb isn't grim-faced football manager Harry Redknapp; and I'll bet there isn't a tweedy president of the local residents' association with eyebrows like vol-au-vents, huffing about what those property developers have done to his slice of heaven.

"In these parts, a stone-clad, three-bed monstrosity with rampant damp problems can be worth £4 million thanks to one of Europe's loveliest beaches "All-in-all, it's an intriguing but nightmarish snapshot of 21st century folly."

  • The half-hour shows air on ITV 1 on Tuesday January 15, Wednesday January 16, and Thursday January 17 at 10.35pm.